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Pinterest is a free online visual pinboard tool which teachers can use to find ideas, tips and resources shared by colleagues elsewhere. So if looking for inspiration, or for a resource for a particular need in your classroom, Pinterest can provide … Continue reading →

Teachers often look for fresh ways of setting classroom tasks for pupils to demonstrate their learning. That is, to be able to show that they have understood what they have been learning by presenting or applying that information in a … Continue reading →

The Great Behaviour Game is a free online tool which a classroom teacher can use to help turn managing classroom behaviour in a primary classroom into a game with a class of pupils. At the same time this provides a serious tool … Continue reading →

Primary Wall from the good people at Primary Technology is an online sticky wall space where your pupils can post small sticky notes with a title, their text and their name. This makes it great for rapidly gathering ideas, collaborating, … Continue reading →

Whether it is the Olympics, Paralympics, Commonwealth Games, Football World Cup, Tennis Masters or other high-profile international sporting events, major events such as these with high media coverage can capture the imagination of your pupils, and that interest can be harnessed … Continue reading →

If your classroom has a SMART Board in it then a huge wealth of resources is available free to you online, making use of the SMART Board’s own interactive software, SMART Notebook, at SMART Exchange. This lets you browse through … Continue reading →

There are always many tasks teachers require to do at the start of working with a new class of pupils, whether starting back for a new school year, or a new group for a different area of work. Many teachers have shared … Continue reading →

Looking for ideas to help you use online tools in the classroom? Not sure how to make best use of that ICT equipment in your school? Just looking for fresh approaches to using tools with which you are already familiar? … Continue reading →

When you want your class to be able to collaborate on writing there are several ways of doing so. One way of doing this is to make use of an online tool which permits real-time collaboration with multiple users all … Continue reading →

Jog the Web is a useful way of a teacher guiding pupils to a series of websites, or specific webpages, you have selected for them, in a sequence determined by the teacher, along with notes about the website being visited. … Continue reading →

Thanks for the tweet Malcolm. Have you also seen our scholarly comms board game The Publishing Trap? https://t.co/LKUms7JzNZ another game to play on #WorldIPDay https://t.co/UqQHTQ0VLc Tags: WorldIPDay

Language teacher and #OneNote expert Marija Petreska did it again. Her students celebrate International Day by collaborating on calligraphy lessons, tongue twisters, Picture Dictionary from Immersive Reader and multilingual stories. https://t.co/YGTsF7iq Tags: OneNote ESL

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This blog is maintained by Malcolm Wilson, ICT Curriculum Development Officer for Falkirk Council Children's Services. The purpose of the blog is to help support teachers within Falkirk schools in their use of digital technology for teaching and learning.

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